ChallengeRunner vs EWH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChallengeRunner
Log and track your progress in employee health challenges. View real-time leaderboards, submit data, and engage with other participants. Integrates with Apple Health for automatic data syncing.
- Log health challenge data
- View real-time leaderboards
- Submit challenge data
- Messaging and comments
- Apple Health integration
- Join challenges via codes/links/QR
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ChallengeRunner Fitness Challenge Logging provides a lightweight interface to the ChallengeRunner employee health challenge platform. This application gives participants access to the fitness challenges they are currently enrolled in. ChallengeRunner Fitness Challenge Logging allows participants to view and submit health challenge data and review the challenge leaderboard. This application features a simple challenge data logging interface, real-time leaderboards, messaging and comments. Participants may join challenges using links, QR Codes, or challenge codes provided by a Challenge Administrator. It is now possible for ChallengeRunner to pull steps, active minutes, distance and calories from the Apple Health app. To turn on this functionality, enable the Health Integration switch in Settings and accept the HealthKit privileges when prompted in the ChallengeRunner app. With HealthKit enabled, ChallengeRunner will sync with the Health app whenever the ChallengeRunner app is opened. NOTE: Most functions require an Internet connection
EWH
This application helps organizations promote healthy habits among employees. It enables the management of health challenges, tracking of vital signs, and monitoring of nutritional intake. The app features a comprehensive food database and integrates with fitness trackers and smartphone motion chips.
- Manage health challenges
- Track health vitals
- Monitor nutritional intake
- Extensive food database
- Integrates with Fitbit
- Uses smartphone motion chip
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Employee Wellness Hub (EWH) is a health app that allows organizations to manage healthy habits for their employees. The app is first of its kind to manage health challenges, track health vitals, and monitor nutritional intake of their employees. EWH’s nutrition database includes information from 8,000+ food items from the USDA as well as 5,000+ food items from fast food restaurants. EWH App uses advanced motion chip in the smart phone (when available) to track precise movements (steps) and also integrates with Fitbit. The app can be customized for employers in terms of its look and feel and it can be integrated with additional data sources related to fitness and nutrition.Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. App integrates with the Health app.The Health app serves as a central repository for health and fitness data in iOS. With the user’s permission, app can communicate with the Health app to access and share information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChallengeRunner at 4.5 against EWH's 2.5. ChallengeRunner also leads on ratings volume (8.7K vs 107). EWH's advantage is review sentiment (47% vs 16%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChallengeRunner holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChallengeRunner has 8.7K ratings behind it against 107, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 16% of ChallengeRunner's written reviews are positive against 47% of EWH's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ChallengeRunner ships an update every 2 weeks, EWH monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChallengeRunner | EWH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8.7K ratings) — better | 2.5 (107 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 15.9% of reviews | 46.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.7K — better | 107 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChallengeRunner LLC | EWH |
Customer experience
ChallengeRunner
EWH
User reviews
ChallengeRunner
From 8.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great for motivation
- 👍 Simple and efficient
- 💡 Wellness partnership
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues with Apple Health and other fitness trackers
- 👎 Poor user interface and navigation
- 🔍 Lack of visibility into team and individual rankings
- 🔧 Buggy and crashes frequently
EWH
From 107 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Great source of information
- 👍 Helpful for motivation
- 👍 Good for tracking steps
- 👍 Encouraging and helpful
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Syncing issues with devices
- 🐛 Inaccurate step tracking
- 🐛 Unreliable performance
- 🐛 Poor user experience
Bugs and requests
ChallengeRunner
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when scrolling leaderboard
- Steps not syncing correctly or disappearing
- Login issues and inability to access app features
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to manually enter steps and other activities
- Improved leaderboard and team management features
- Integration with more fitness tracking devices
- Better data visualization and analytics
EWH
Reported bugs
37 issues- App doesn't sync from watch
- Contact field broken
- Cycling job not registering
- Steps not syncing
- Error when manually entering activity
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- Error submitting support form (requires 'atleast 12 digit')
- App stopped working
- Server takes long to load/sync data
- App freezes and crashes
- Motion tracker does not sync with health data
- Access denied due to permissions
- Steps not accurate
- Links redirect to app store
- App doesn't sync with Apple Health
- Cannot recover password
- Cannot link Apple Watch
- App crashes during challenges
- Does not connect with Apple Watch
- Step detection doesn't work
- Connecting to HealthKit fails
- App doesn't want to open challenges
- Freezes and crashes half the time
- No option to sync with Fitbit
- Data entry screen not intuitive
- App closes or freezes when tracking activity
- App crashes every time you try to add a tracker
- App auto logs you off
- App crashes as soon as login is successful
- App launches but gets stuck
- Doesn't accurately import steps
- App icon not showing up
- Cannot log in through web browser
- App syncs well with devices but navigation is not intuitive
- App is extremely glitchy
- App worked during setup but not since
- Black screen after navigating and hitting back button
- App needs to be reinstalled to fix black screen issue
Requested features
7 requests- Improve sync reliability
- Fix contact support form
- Add more manual activity entry options
- Update outdated instructions
- Improve user interface intuitiveness
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- Add Fitbit or other device sync
- Add new articles daily
In-app purchases
ChallengeRunner
No in-app purchases
EWH
No in-app purchases
